Unravelling the sbottom spin at the CERN LHC
- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Establishing that a signal of new physics is undoubtedly supersymmetric requires not only the discovery of the supersymmetric partners but also probing their spins and couplings. We show that the sbottom spin can be probed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider using only angular correlations in the reaction pp{yields}b-tildeb-tilde*{yields}bbpe{sub T}, which allow us to distinguish a universal extra dimensional interpretation with a fermionic heavy bottom quark from supersymmetry with a bosonic bottom squark. We demonstrate that this channel provides a clear indication of the sbottom spin provided the sbottom production rate and branching ratio into b{chi}-tilde{sub 1}{sup 0} are sufficiently large to have a clear signal above standard model backgrounds.
- OSTI ID:
- 20929575
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.115013; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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